This Commercial Kitchen Appliance Uses an Original Pentium Clone CPU (and Runs DOS)!

The world of embedded computing devices can often yield interesting component choices. This quasi-computer meant for use in restaurants rocks a clone Pentium CPU that traces its roots back to 1998...and you can still buy it new today. Sources: Kitchen display system photos: https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/benefit... https://squareup.com/us/en/point-of-s... "Rise readies itself as Intel's rival", InfoWorld, July 6, 1998. Rise mP6 chip photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Rise mP6 details: https://web.archive.org/web/200606151... "Intel faces stiff competition", InfoWorld, November 30, 1998. mP6 chip in motherboard photo: https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/a... Pentium II photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... AMD K6-2 photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Rise mP6 chip photo: https://cpumuseum.jimdofree.com/museu... SiS motherboard photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... SiS 746FX chip photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Cable TV box photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... ---------------------------------------­------------------------------------ Please consider supporting my work on Patreon:   / thisdoesnotcompute   Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ---------------------------------------­------------------------------------ Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).